Trash-burning stove



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE C. WERNER, BEATRICE, NEBRASKA.

TRASH-BURNING STOVE.-

SPECIFICATION formng part of Letters Patent No. 414,931, dated November 12, 1889.

Application filed .Tune 5, 1889. Serial No. 313,122. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, GEORGECLINTON WER- NER, of Beatrice, in the county of Gage and State of Nebraskahave invented a new and Improved Trash-Burning Stove, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.l

This invention relates to trash burning stoves, the object of the Ainvention being to provide for a proper regulation of the draft of such stoves, and at the same time to provide for the ready removal of the stove-body when it is desired to dump the ashes therefrom and to refill the body with trash.

In prairie countries, where wood is scarce and coal is high, trash-burning stoves are eX- tensively employed; but prior to my invention great difficulty has been experienced in charging the stoves, in freeing them l from ashes, and in preventing the puffing out of cinders and smoke. It is to obviate these objections that I have designed the stove forming the subject-matter of this application, the invention consisting of certain novel constructions, arrangements, and combinations of elements, to behereinafter fully explained,

I and specifically pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved trash-burning stove. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the upper portion of the stove, the view being taken on line w oc of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional detail view on liney y of Fig. 2.

In constructing the stove forming the subject-matter of this application I provide an outer sheet-metal case 10, to which there is connected a bottom 11,which carries an varched perforated plate 12. VitlLin the walls of the case 10, I place a perforated sheathing 13, that is held to place by bolts or studs 14, there being a space abetween the sheet-metal case 10 and the sheathing 13. To the top of the case 10 there is fitted a top 15, provided with a bottom plate 16, which extends from the rear edge of the top forward toward the front edge thereof, there being a space b in advance of the forward edge of the plate. The top 15 and plate 16 are spaced and strengthened by angle-irons 17. The casing 10 is provided with an upper draft-controlling slide 18 and a lower draft-controlling slide 19.

In connection with the parts above described I employ a structure which I call a smoke-hue,77 said smoke-line being arranged to fit telescopically between the top 15 and the upper flange of the case 10, and this smoke- .i'lue is provided with a curb 21, upon which the smoke stack or pipe 22 is fitted, an ordinary damper 23 being arranged as shown. To the section of smoke-pipe shown in the drawings other sections will be fitted in the ordinary manner, as will be readily understood.

The smoke-flue 2O is supported by legs 24, three of said legs being preferably employed, and the forwardly-extending legs 24 are provided with arms 25, which extend beneath the case 10 and serve as asupport for the said case, the forward ends of the arms being bent down to form legs 26; or, if desired, the case may be provided with independent legs.

f In operation the trash is placed in the firechamber within the sheathing 13, and the parts are adj usted as represented in the drawings. The fire may be lighted at the top or bottom, as desired, suflicient draft from the bottom being insured by the arched plate 12. The sheathing 13 holds the trash from bearing directly upon the walls of the case 10, and a proper exit for the smoke is secured through the space a, the smokerising and passing upward through the space b between the topand the plate lb' to the smoke-flue 20. After the material has burned out the case 10 and the parts carried thereby are removed bodily and the ashes dumped outside of the building, the lire-chamber being afterward refilled with trash, as will be readily understood.

In practice it will be found that a stove constructed as above described will not smoke and will not puff.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A stove of the character described, consisting of a removable body or casing having a removable cover andan opening in one side of its upper end, a horizontal smoke-flue 20, entering at its inner end said opening, rods IOO 24, supporting said smoke-flue in rear of the body or casing, and horizontal rods 25, projecting forward from the lower` ends of rods 24, to support the body or casing, and provided with legs 26 at their forward ends, whereby.

the body or casing with its cover may be readily lifted away from the rods 25 substantially as set forth.

2. In a stove of the character described, the

outer casing 10, havin g upper and lower dampers 18 19, the inner foraminated sheathing 13,

spacing bolts orlugs 14, connecting the sheath- 4 ing and `outer casing, the foraminated arched plate 12 on the bottom of the casing 10 in line with damper 19, and the removable cover 15, substantially as set forth.

and outlet 20,

GEORGE C. WERNER.

Witnesses GUS VALLENTINE, F. E. MORRISON. 

